Most of Doug's sketches at comics-cartoon conventions are done on Arches of France cold press paper/art board or in copies of Unpublished Sneyd, featuring 100 of his favorite Playboy gag rough rejects.

However, on Saturday, May 19 at the Dallas Comic Con, an attendee commissioned Doug to personalize a baseball. No problem! He did a likeness of Lydia from the October 1994 (p. 113) cartoon published in Playboy. It was also reproduced on the cover of The Art of Doug Sneyd, published by Dark Horse Comics.

The 248-page book, featuring nearly 270 of Doug's 450+ Playboy cartoons, has been nominated for a 2012 Eisner Award in the Best Humor Publication category. Eisner Award winners will be announced Friday evening, July 13 at the San Diego Comic-Con, the largest comics-cartoon convention in North America.

Since his first full-page color cartoon was published in Playboy - September 1964, Doug has submitted thousands of cartoon gag roughs to the magazine. Of course, not all can be selected for final art and ultimate publication in Playboy.

Unpublished Sneyd features his 100 favorite unpublished gag roughs; he personalized the book with a B & W sketch on the Introduction Page for Dallas Comic Con attendees Yen, Kim, Ashton, Mandy and Stephanie.

Doug's next comics-cartoon convention is July 11-15 in San Diego; he exhibits with Big Wow Art. Check the SDCC program for the group's booth location.

We thought you might be interested to see Doug working on one his Fabulous Faces - a 9 x 12 watercolor done on 100% cotton, 140 Lb. cold pressed Arches of France watercolor paper using Dr. Ph. Martin's aniline dyes.

We thought you might be interested to see Doug working on Blond in Black Lace Lingerie; original artwork is sold at comics-cartoon conventions and also available on the Doug Sneyd Premium Gallery at: www.comicartfans.com

Sunday, June 3, 2012

We thought you might be interested to see Doug working on a new Fabulous Face; original artwork is available at comics-cartoon conventions or through the Doug Sneyd Premium Gallery at www.comicartfans.com

Doug's next convention is the 5-day San Diego Comic-Con, July 11-15, exhibiting with the Big Wow Art; please check the program for booth space.

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Bio

Doug has been a cartoonist for Playboy magazine since 1964.
For nearly 20 years, starting in the mid-60's, his "Doug Sneyd" and "Scoops" news cartoons appeared daily in newspapers across North America. Sneyd's talent has also led him into cinema: in 1993, he wrote, produced and directed "Black-eyed Susan," an educational movie-drama about spousal abuse, for the Ontario government. He was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Book Illustrators and has been a member of the National Cartoonists' Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Thirty of his full-page color Playboy cartoons are among the 235 Sneyd works included in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa.
Sneyd was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, but spent much of his professional career in Toronto. In 1969 he moved his family north to Orillia made famous as the mythical "Mariposa" by humorist Stephen Leacock. He works on the third floor of his home-studio overlooking beautiful Lake Couchiching and spends his winters on the Gulf Coast in Orange Beach, Alabama.